Warren County GaArchives History - Schools .....Academy Commissioners 1821 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000642 October 9, 2005, 4:36 pm Book Title: 1821 Vol. 2 -- Page: 125 Sequential Number: 124 Type: AN ACT Full Title: To appoint Commissioners for the County Academies of Walton, Gwinnett, Hall, Habersham, Rabun, Warren, and Pulaski, and to incorporate the same. WARREN John Butts, Peyton Baker, Chappel Heath, John W. A. Petit, and Grigsby E. Thomas, for the county Academy of Warren; and that the commissioners as aforesaid named, are [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] to be bodies politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Commissioners of the County Academies as [Illegible Text] and such bodies politic shal be capable of suing and being sued, and buying such number of acres of land as they or a majority of them may deem expedient for the erection and convenience of such county Academies, and of doing all other acts which may be necessary to the [Illegible Text] of the trust [Illegible Text] to them, and for that purpose may have and use a [Illegible Text] seal, and appoint such officers as they may [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] and [Illegible Text] the same at pleasure. § 2. And be it further enacted by the [Illegible Text] aforesaid, That the said commissioners shall be [Illegible Text] of accepting all [Illegible Text] gifts, and donations, which may hereafter be bestowed upon them, and shall hold the same according to the conditions contained in such donation or [Illegible Text] and for collecting and laying out, or disposing of any monies or debts which may become due the said institutions either for tuition or otherwise, and also to fill all vacancies that may happen in their respective bodies. § 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all fines and forfeitures arising from prosecutions on the criminal side of the courts of said counties; and also all other penalties and forfeitures, whether arising from bonds to prosecute, or bonds for the appearance of any offender, or any other violation of the penal statute of this state, within the said counties of Walton, Gwinnett, Hall, Habersham, Rabun, Warren, and Pulaski, be, and the same is hereby vested in the commissioners as aforesaid of the county Academies as aforesaid named, in relation to their respective appointments; and any monies arising from any forfeitures as aforesaid, the officer or person holding the same, is directed to pay over the same within [Illegible Text] month after the collection thereof to the commissioners' of his respective county Academy, and that all cost arising from such prosecutions be first paid; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Approval Date: Assented to 25th December, 1821. Additional Comments: Galileo - Source File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/warren/history/schools/academyc618gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb